Who Is Mister Putin

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

• Valeriy BalayanDirector
• Valeriy BalayanScreenplay

• Yuri MakarovNarrator (voice)
• Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
• Marina SalyeSelf - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad
• Oleg KaluginSelf - Former KGB General, Former Deputy of the USSR
• José Grinda GonzalezSelf - Anti-corruption Prosecutor
• Aleksandr AnikinSelf - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Lawyer
• Aleksandr ShchelkanovSelf - Former Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991)
• Nikolay AndrushchenkoSelf - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Newspaper Editor
• Petr AvenSelf - Ex-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation
• Vladimir IvanidzeSelf - Journalist
• Andrey ZykovSelf - Former Police Investigator
• Jürgen RothSelf - German Publicist on organized crime